The photo shown in the previous entry was chosen quite by accident, but proved to be prophetic. It shows the Lotus Esprit S1 from the movie The Spy Who Loved Me exiting the water during one of its most famous scenes. Little did we know as we put the issue to bed that night that Roger Becker, a true Lotus legend and the man who drove the Esprit in the chase scenes in the movie, had passed away that very day. Writing his obituary took an incredible amount of time due to the shock, the pain and the sheer number of stories to be told. But, in the end, we decided to follow the edict Roger held to so tightly during his years at Lotus, and made the piece both simpler and lighter. Godspeed RGB.